Follow us on Twitter!

Sunday, October 18th, 2009

So its official you can now follow us on twitter to see what we’re up to!

At the moment I cant see there being much tweeting going on due to the vast amount of website design work going on here, be stay tuned! We’ll be posting regular updates, such as:

• New website design ideas
• New website launches
• Sneak peaks
• Tips and Tricks
• Other random stuff we come across!
• And much much more.

Furthermore we’d love to hear your comments and feedback on our work!

You can follow us at: twitter.com/zenduo

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Redirect emails from Microsoft Office Outlook Web Access OWA

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Only a quick post, just simple instructions to setup mail redirection on your Microsoft Office Outlook Web Access to your personal email that you might actually like using!

Step 1

Login then navigate to Options > Rules

Step 2

Creating a rule:

We will create a rule to manage the redirection of any incoming emails. To do this we need to create a new rule. Select “New Rule” and then choose “Create a new rule for arriving messages“.

Step 3

After the new window has loaded click “Forward or Redirect” then Redirect the message to people or distribution list (don’t worry the messages still remain on your account even if they are redirected).

After selecting the following option you will need to add your email address. Click on “‎people or distribution lists‎“. As soon as the pop up comes up enter the email address into the bottom box, and press OK.

Step 4

That’s it your almost done, give your rule a name in the “Name:” box and click save. Now all of your future emails will be forwarded to your personal inbox.

Be sure to test that it is working by sending yourself a test email.

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Classic Tunes!!!!!!!!

Monday, February 25th, 2008

Ebeneezer Goode – The Shamen

Haddaway – What is Love?

Culture Beat – Mr Vein

Robin S – Show Me Love 2008

Ride on Time – Black Box

Mr.President Coco Jambo

Dr Alban – It’s My Life (no lyrics)

The Source & Candi Staton You’ve Got The Love

Killer – Adamski

Devotion – Nomad

The Shamen – Move Any Mountain

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Dissertation – Privacy

Monday, February 25th, 2008

As web technologies advance, are we giving away too much information about our personal lives?

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The internet in its essence is a directory; a platform whereby users can access information and purchase goods or services. It provides a key asset for communication in the twenty first century. As time passes, society delves into the depths of the World Wide Web, immersing and embedding personal data within, enabling digital profiling and data surveillance on a global scale. With internet connections performing at even greater speeds, we are able to access further information and expose ourselves to this unforgiving environment. Recent statistics indicate that over 21% of the world’s population are actively online (Miniwatts Marketing Group 2008), and as technology advances and global corporations develop, the application of data mining techniques are without doubt becoming more common and sophisticated.

Has society become ignorant in respect of the electronic footprint that it leaves behind? Should society be concerned about the cause and effects of our individual actions online with regards to our privacy within the digital domain? More importantly should there be legislation in place to enable fully anonymous browsing and digital privacy online? Or is this even a genuine concern? David Smith from the Information Commissioner’s Office argues that ‘The cost to a person’s future can be very high if something undesirable is found’ (BBC 2007).  Something should therefore be done to prevent any possible future catastrophes.

This research aims to investigate and question concerns relating to privacy online. Since the development of web surveillance technologies, the internet has seen the rise of many successful companies, but most notably Google Inc. Initially known only for its unique search engine algorithms, Google has innovated and acquired numerous web technologies and now dominates a 63% share of the search engine market (Peter 2008). Google.com is also ranked the second most accessed website in the world by Alexa (2008), and with its countless sub brands, for example, YouTube and Blogger, it would perhaps be correct to assume that almost everybody who has been online will at some point in time have used services provided by Google.

The underlying question asks whether society is giving away too much information relating to their personal lives. Whether users are logging onto Google to perform simple search queries or signing into their Gmail accounts, every click, search parameter and email that is read has been scanned, analysed and stored. This data, when processed, can be combined to compile complete digital profiles of individuals, becoming available to the provider to perform targeted advertising, significantly increasing revenue. Furthermore, this information has the potential to become damaging in the wrong hands. This thesis raises the awareness and the effects of using such services, with the new Google Android phone and preinstalled toolbars arriving on new computers, global forces such as Google are becoming escapable in almost every aspect of modern day life. Does society really want to forsake its privacy in the aid of better targeted adverts?

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